Midwinter

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Tracklist

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▼CD 1: Past & Presents
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Gower Wassail (First Part)
Phil Tanner1:53
2Stopping by Woods / Steve Tilson - Roving on a Winter's Night (feat. Maggie Boyle & Mike Hockenhull)
Robert Frost4:32
3The River
Grace Notes3:17
4Autobiography (excerpt) (feat. narrator: Jim Lawton) / John Fahey - Skater's Waltz / William Wordsworth - The Prelude (excerpt) ( feat. narrator: Jim Lawton)
Arthur Ransome1:51
5Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand
recording of:
Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 808)
Lal Waterson1:51
6The Spirit of Christmas
Steve Ashley2:40
7Hamlet (excerpt) (feat. narrator: Gary Watson) / Leadbelly - Christmas Is a Comin'
William Shakespeare1:15
8Xmas Island (feat. Blind Boy Grunt)
Dick Farina & Eric Von Schmidt3:12
9The Humstrum
David Strawbridge & Tim Laycock3:08
10Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy
Mabe Choir2:33
11Wassail
John Kirkpatrick3:08
12Snow Falls (feat. John Tams)
The Albion Band3:54
13Wintergrace
Jean Ritchie3:24
14Cherry Tree Carol
recording of:
The Cherry-Tree Carol
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Child Ballads (number: 54) and Roud Folk Song Index (number: 453)
Shirley Collins1:21
15Red and Green Christmas
Nadia Cattouse2:28
16Emmanuel
The Watersons2:28
17Song to Mithras
Peter Bellamy2:03
18The Meadowhall Carol
Coope Boyes & Simpson4:32
19God Bless the Birthday Boy
The McCalmans3:18
20Moving on Song
recording of:
Moving-On Song
lyricist and composer:
Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl1:15
21Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Helen Watson & Suzie Adams3:15
22The Workhouse Boy
The Halliard3:16
23Snow Is on the Ground (excerpt) / Jeff Warner & Barbara Benn - Snow Is on the Ground
Eleazar Tillett4:07
24Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Enoch Kent2:18
25Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow
Dave Pegg3:21
26The Night Before Christmas
Mike Hockenhull3:05
27The Christmas Tree
Charlie Fretwell5:09
▼CD 2: Comfort & Joy
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Reading: Luke 2:1 / Scan Tester - While Shepherds Watched
Nigel Schofield2:06
2Christmas Must Be Tonight
Johnny Coppin5:29
3On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (feat. narrator: Jim Lawton) / John McCutcheon - For Unto Us a Child
John Milton4:20
4Shepherds Arise
The Copper Family2:21
5Reading: Luke 2:8 / Annual Sacred Harp Musical Association Singing Convention - Sherburne
Nigel Schofield1:58
6Hark Hark What News / Nigel Schofield - Reading: Luke 2:7
Carollers at the Black Bull3:12
7Once in Royal David's City
Martyn Wyndham-Read4:21
8The Three Harks
Coope Boyes & Simpson3:33
9Wexford Carol
Maggie Boyle3:57
10I Sing of a Maiden
Shirley Collins1:54
11Lullay My Liking
The Young Tradition2:10
12Silent Night
Chloë Coburn & Bernie Parry2:05
13The First Nowell
BaccaPella3:10
14Reading: Matthew 2:1 / St. Agnes Fountain - Follow That Star
Nigel Schofield4:43
15Star in the East (Brightese and Best) (feat. John Roberts)
Debra Cowan1:52
16Astrologer's Journey
Johnny Coppin4:27
17Journey of the Magi
Thomas Stearns Eliot0:59
18Follow the Star
Maggie Boyle & Gary Boyle3:44
19Herod & The Cock / Nigel Schofield - Reading: Matthew 2:16
Nowell Sing We Clear1:15
20Coventry Carol - An Apocrypha
Joan Baez1:57
21The Carnal & The Crane
New Scorpion Band4:20
22Go Tell It on the Mountain
Mahalia Jackson3:10
23On Christmas Day
May Bradley1:29
24Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
DruidStone4:17
▼CD 3: Peace & Goodwill
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Fire and Wine
Steve Ashley4:34
2In the Winter
Laura Hockenhull & John Dipper2:42
3Papa Ain't No Santy Claus
Butterbeans & Susie3:20
4Winter Flowers
Martha Tilston4:37
5Christmas in Prison
Fishken & Groves2:57
6Jogging Along With My Reindeer
John Kirkpatrick4:04
7Cardboard Christmas Boxes
Alan Hull2:58
8Comfort and Joy
Clive Gregson4:44
9First Snow in Brooklyn
Jethro Tull4:58
10Lady Gay
Buell Kazee3:06
11Peace O'er the World (Bradda Anthem)
Coope Boyes & Simpson feat. Fi Fraser, Jo Freya & Georgina Boyes2:42
12Oh What a Lovely War (excerpt) / Christmas 1914
Mike Harding5:01
13Christmas Isn't What It Used to Be (feat. Paedar Long)
Tim Moon3:28
14Christmas (excerpt) (feat. narrator: John Tams)
John Clare1:08
15Ghost of Christmas Past
Mandy Morton Band3:37
16Christmas Morning
Loudon Wainwright III3:38
17Days of Holly & Mistletoe
Artisan2:55
18Huron Carol (feat. Hildur Colot & John Fleagle)
Carol Duveneck1:57
19The King (feat. Maddy Prior)
Strawbs2:40
20The Christmas Hare
Muckram Wakes2:24
21Chariots
John Kirkpatrick6:21
22Remember Bethlehem
Kevin Loughran2:38
▼CD 4: The Old & The New
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Old Christmas / Shooting
Nowell Sing We Clear4:13
2Apple Tree Wassail
The Watersons2:39
3Gloucestershire Wassail
The Albion Christmas Band3:15
4The Oxen
Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band2:50
5The Burning Babe
Mike Hockenhull3:25
6Bushes and Briars
Sandy Denny2:37
7Poor Ditching Boy
Richard Thompson3:01
8From the Clock Almanac (feat. narrator: Jim Lawton)
John Hartley0:33
9Dunstan Lullaby
Coope Boyes & Simpson1:29
10Watts' Cradle Hymn
Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band3:27
11Boar's Head Carol
Teeside Fettlers1:47
12The Grinch
Boris Karloff0:32
13Hunting the Wren
Joe and Winifred Woods1:40
14Cutty Wren
The Ian Campbell Folk Group2:26
15The Wren (or the King)
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick1:40
16First Christmas Away From Home
Artisan3:43
17Miner's Dream of Home
Fred Whiting3:58
18Symondsbury Mummers
[unknown]0:35
19Happy Christmas (War Is Over) / We Sing Hallelujah
Alan Rose3:07
20None but One
Jean Ritchie6:17
21Mari Llwyd
John Clough1:09
22Carol for the New Year
Nowell Sing We Clear4:07
23The Oxplough Song
Johnny Collins3:14
24Three Ships Suite
Steve Tilston9:38
25Gower Wassail (reprise) / Midnight Chimes
Phil Tanner1:36
26The January Man
Martin Carthy4:58

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ASIN:UK: B000IOMVD2 [info]